Situation at 1200 was a band that exsisted between the years of 1998 - 2000 and were based out of Morris County, NJ. The band was formed out of the ashes of two NJ bands, My Favorite Citizen and Ember. Both bands had been close friends and played many shows together. When both band's time were up, Scott Shields (guitar/vox) of MFC joined forces with Chris Vaglio(guitar), Bill McVeigh(drums), and Paul D'elia(bass) of Ember. Hence Situation at 1200 was formed. The name came out the band's fascination with outer space and UFO's which play a big influence in their songwriting and sound.
Between the years of 1998 and 2000 the band recorded a 7 song demo, relased a 5 song E.P. on your Your Best Guess Records and a swan song 3 song E.P. that could be downloaded for free from
yourbestguess.com
They also played many shows with a lot of very cool bands like Braid, Jejune, Jimmy Eat World, Rainer Maria, Coalesce, You and I, Thursday, Miracle of '86, Midtown, The Dillinger Esacpe Plan, Kid Dynamite, Brandston, Penfold, Big Wig, Blacktop Cadence, Hot Water Music, Ted Leo, Strike Force, Pillow, and many more.
Their final show was played on William Paterson Universiy's radio station in August of 2000, with Ted Leo and Miracle of '86.
Since their last transmission:
Scott Shields went on to run Your Best Guess Records until 2002 and now maintains and writes for the blog site demwatch.com
Chris Vaglio went on to form his own music video production company called Grey Sky Films. He and his buisness partner Mark Serao have produced music videos for My Chemical Romance, Retisonic, The Butchies, The Feverfew, Stephen Kellogg and more. Visit their site at greyskyfilms.com.
Bill McViegh went on to play drums with The Judas Factor, Killed by the Bull, and most recently Jett Brando.
Paul D'elia moved on to play guitar in the hardcore bands, Tear it Up and Cut the Shit.
